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Kent Artillery Volunteers Officer’s Full Dress Flap Pouch c. 1860-74, the pouch of red moroccan covered with blue cloth and silver bullion decoration, this comprises the script initials ‘KAV’ laurel and acorn sprays and three white metal cannons ‘in pile’, complete with carrying rings, slight moth damage to the face and rear of the pouch, lace requires cleaning otherwise good overall condition £160-240
Hammer Price: £180
Second Middlesex Artillery Volunteers Officer’s Full Dress Pouch c. 1870-1901, the pouch of purse pattern in black moroccan covered with blue cloth, this with silver bullion decoration comprising the Royal Arms of Great Britain, laurel and oak sprays, the double title ‘Second’ ‘Middlesex Artillery Volunteers’ and a plated cannon, complete with carrying rings, some worm damage to the leather areas and very slight moth damage to the blue cloth not affecting the face otherwise very...
Hammer Price: £200
South East of Scotland Militia Artillery Officer’s Full Dress Flap Pouch c. 1890-1901, a very fine example, the purse style pouch in black moroccan covered with blue cloth and gold embroidery featuring the Royal Arms, scrolls of oak and laurel, a gilt metal cannon and double title scroll ‘Ubique’ ‘South-East-of-Scotland-Artillery’, complete with carrying rings and foul weather cover, very fine condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £220
The Suffolk Militia Artillery Officer’s Full Dress Flap Pouch and Shoulder Belt c. 1853-90, the pouch of purse style in black moroccan faced with blue cloth and gold embroidery decoration, this features the Royal Arms, laurel and oak spray scrolls, a gilt metal cannon and title scroll ‘The Suffolk Artillery’, the pouch belt of standard format in black moroccan faced with gold lace and complete with gilt metal buckle, slide and tip, the shoulder belt with some melted patent leather...
Cardigan Militia Artillery Officer’s Full Dress Flap Pouch c. 1870-90, a fine quality example, the purse style pouch in black moroccan covered with blue cloth and gold embroidery, this features the Royal Arms, sprays of laurel and oak, a gilt metal cannon and title scroll ‘Cardigan Artillery’, complete with gilt metal carrying rings, the blue cloth with severe moth damage at the rear and on the top right hand of the face, the purse with some grub damage, the gold lace in exceptional...
Hammer Price: £240
10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own) Officer’s Flap Pouch c 1911-36, the pouch of black patent leather with gilt mounts comprising gilt laurel sprays and ‘GR’ cypher, this overlaid in silver and gilt with the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto, above the cypher in silver the Imperial crown, complete with gilt metal side ornaments, lacks closing tab and is crazed overall, the metal sections in very good condition £200-300
The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) Officer’s Hall Marked Silver Flap Pouch, a very good example, the pouch of black moroccan faced with decorated silver panel by Bent and Parker Birmingham 1898, to the centre in gilt a large French Eagle over a plinth ‘Waterloo’, complete with side ornaments and carrying brackets, also hall marked Birmingham 1898, very slight gilt loss to the Eagle otherwise good overall condition £500-700
£500–£700
6th Inniskilling Dragoons Officer’s Hall Marked Silver Flap Pouch c. 1910-37, the pouch of black moroccan faced with silver hall marked Birmingham 1914 by Jennens & Co., in the centre in gilt the Imperial crown over ‘GR’ cypher, this overlaid with a small silver Castle, complete with side ornaments and carrying brackets also hall marked, the gilt cypher and crown heavily rubbed as is the Castle to the extent that ‘Inniskilling’ is illegible, the pouch repaired with tape and one...
4th Royal Lancashire Militia Officer’s Full Dress Shoulder Belt Pouch c. 1860-1901, of black moroccan faced with black cloth and silver lace and featuring the Royal Arms, oak and laurel sprays, a silver plated metal cannon and short scroll ‘4th’ and bottom tri-part scroll ‘Lancashire Artillery Volunteers’, complete with usual fastening rings, the lace dull overall, otherwise good condition £140-180
21st Battalion the London Regiment Officer’s Pouch Belt Plate c. 1922-52, a very fine example in die stamped silver plate displaying the crown Bath style star, the arms with battle honours, central circle ‘First Surrey Rifles 1803’ and bottom scroll ‘21st London Regiment’, four screw post fasteners, very fine condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £160
Royal Marines Light Infantry Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp c. 1855-1901, a scarce example being of standard 1855 pattern with central Royal Crest in gilt and title circle ‘Royal Marines Light Infantry’, matching journeyman’s mark, some gilt loss to the centre otherwise very good condition £120-160
Hammer Price: £120
38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp c. 1855-81, good quality example of standard 1855 pattern, in the centre on a gilt ground St. Edward’s crown over the Knot Simplicita, on the circle ‘1st Staffordshire Regiment’ (Ryan 61), no bench marks but a perfect match, some gilt loss but generally good condition £140-200
The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire) Regiment Militia Battalions Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881-1901, of special oak leaf pattern in silver plate, the central disc with gilt metal overlays comprising regimental title, laurel sprays, Prince of Wales’s feathers and motto over the Sphinx/Egypt, no bench marks but a perfect match, slight gilt loss otherwise very fine condition £100-160
Hammer Price: £80
101st (Royal Bengal Fusiliers) Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1861-81, a very good gilt example of special oak leaf pattern, the central disc with ornate laurel and battle honour scrolls, in the centre a fused grenade, this mounted with a silver title strap enclosing silver floreated numerals ‘101’, no bench marks but a perfect match (Ryan 146), some overall gilt loss otherwise very good condition £160-220
Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment Militia Battalions & Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 2nd Volunteer Battalion Officers’ Waist Belt Clasps, c. 1883-1901, both good quality items in silver plate and of 1855 pattern, the first with a central Paschal Lamb and on the circle ‘Pristinae Virtutis Memor’, the second with central Royal Crest over a Rose, the central circle ‘Royal North Lancashire Regt. 2nd Volr Batn’, neither with benchmarks but perfect matches, very good condition...
Hammer Price: £150
Light Cavalry Victorian Period Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp, Territorial Artillery Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp & a Brass Military Establishment Key, the first of standard rectangular burnished gilt format with silver overlay comprising crowned VR cypher, oak sprays and motto ‘Dieu Et Mon Droit’ (lacks loose D ring section); the second in gilt of double panel format each mounted with post 1902 Royal Cypher and secured by a double headed swan/snake S section hook; the third of solid brass...
£60–£100
The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp 1881-1901, an extremely fine example of oak leaf side panel pattern, in the centre on a gilt ground a Royal Prince’s coronet over a strung bugle horn, on the circle ‘The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry’, matching bench marks, (Ryan 199) near mint condition £100-160
The Essex Regiment Officer’s Waist Belt Clasp c. 1881-1901, of special oak leaf side panel pattern with central circular gilt disc, this mounted with a silver and enamel badge featuring oak sprays, a crowned circle ‘The Essex Regiment’, in the centre the Sphinx/Egypt over the county shield of Essex displaying three gold seaxes on a red enamel ground, at the bottom the Castle and Key for Gibraltar, the loose section only with a bench mark but a perfect match (Ryan 211), gilt loss...
Hammer Price: £170
The Norfolk Regiment 2nd Volunteer Battalion & The Suffolk Regiment Militia Battalions Officers’ Waist Belt Clasps c. 1883-1901, both in silver plate and of 1855 pattern, the first with Britannia and Castle in the centre, the Castle with a flag on the central turret but lacking flags on the two side turrets, on the circle ‘The Norfolk Regt. 2nd Volr. Battn.’, the second with Gibraltar, Castle and Key in the centre with a scroll above ‘Gibraltar’ and a scroll below ‘Montis...
Hammer Price: £130
The King’s Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) & The York and Lancaster Regiment Officers’ Waist Belt Clasps c.1881-1901, both of 1855 pattern, the first as shown in Ryan 219 shows a coiled bugle horn with rose centre and bottom scroll ‘Cede Nullis’, on the circle ‘The King’s Own Light Infantry’; the second with a Rose and Tiger centre and on the scroll ‘York & Lancaster Regiment’ (Ryan 229), the first with matching bench marks, the second without but a perfect...
103 Royal Bombay Fusiliers Other Ranks Head Dress Badges c. 1861-1881, comprising both patterns of pre-territorial glengarry badges in good quality die stamped brass (KK 579 & 580), very good condition (2) £200-300
British Army Cap Badges, comprising an officer’s example to the 15th Hussars QVC period in silver gilt and blue enamel and a similar other ranks in bi-metal; an other ranks Victorian period 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars and an officer’s KC example in silver plate, gilt and enamel, the gilt rubbed on the first item otherwise good overall condition (4) £100-160
Long Range Desert Group Officer’s Silver Cap Badge & US Air Force Silver Wings Breast Badge, the first a good quality item with maker’s marks and original lug fasteners stated to be pre-1947, hall marked Cairo; the second in die cast silver with original pin back and maker’s mark Wallace Bishop/silver/Brisbane, very good condition (2) £240-300
Hammer Price: £260
KC and QEC Periods Canadian Cap and Collar Badges, a large quantity of mainly post WW2 period with most regiments and corps represented, approximately fifty eight cap badges and ten collar badges, three ‘Canada’ shoulder titles, good overall condition (70+) £60-100
Excavated Military Cap Badges, Military Buttons, Livery Buttons and Other Artefacts, complete cap badges include ATS, Military Police (GV1R), KSLI, Queen’s West Surreys, Canadian Artillery (mostly lacking fasteners), four military buttons to the HEIC College Addiscombe c. 1820, 40th 2nd Somerset Regiment c. 1800-20 (no fastener), 35th Kent Rifle Volunteers and 38th Kent Rifle Volunteers (damage to rim); a selection of WWI Imperial German buttons; 24+ livery buttons; three horse harness...
Hammer Price: £100
28th Northwest Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force Other Ranks Cap and Collar Badges, no maker’s mark; together with two additional collar badges from the same Battalion; and various other cap badges and cloth insignia mainly relating to the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force, good condition (lot) £40-50
Hammer Price: £75
King’s African Rifles Cap Badges and Shoulder Titles (6), comprising 2nd Battalion K.A.R. Officer’s badge (2), silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1959 and 1960); 1st Battalion K.A.R. other ranks badge, brass; 2nd Battalion K.A.R. other ranks badge (2), brass, traces of repairs to one; and K.A.R. shoulder titles, brass, one lug broken off on last, otherwise good condition (6) £30-40
Hammer Price: £45
Assorted Militaria, comprising a bronze head and shoulders bust of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener mounted on a wooden socle; a British Army Officer’s brown leather pistol holster; two variable Army clasp knives; a bullet lighter; a base plate dated 1943 of a 25 pounder shell, the whole contained in a wooden military carrying case 38 x 10.5 x 19.5 cms, good overall condition (7) £60-100
Hammer Price: £60
A Single British Cavalry Undress Epaulette, a Pair of Continental Shoulder Scales and Two Continental Gorgets, the first of elaborate design decorated lapped scales, raised crescent in the form of a double headed serpent with a fused grenade within the crescent, at the strap end laurel sprays enclosing a small gilt button, the whole with a red cloth lining and strengthened with metal plates (possibly 2nd Life Guards c. 1820), the button has a scalloped rim, central star and plain centre; a...
Hammer Price: £70
A Pair of George III 2nd Life Guards Mustard Pots, 1815, the silver gilt mounted pots (11 cms in height) by Emes & Barnard of London, with plain tapering glass bodies, scroll handles, the domed hinged covers with a knop finial, each engraved with a family crest of ‘a bee sucking a thistle proper’ for M’Innes and a regimental device comprising a crowned garter containing the words ‘Second Life Guards’ and encircling a GR cypher, hallmarked London 1815 (erased on one), very good...
£800–£1,200
The Standards and Colours of the Army from the Restoration 1661 to the Introduction of the Territorial System 1881, by Samuel Milne Milne, a very fine example numbered 55 from a limited edition of 200, large 8vo, twenty-nine plates, sixteen of them splendid chromolithographs, numerous illustrations to the text. An exceptional bright copy in the original blue cloth, gilt. xxiv, 257pp. + 11pp. appendices and index. Printed for the Subscribers by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, 1893, very fine...
Hammer Price: £280
3rd Foot Guards Royal Commissions to William Douglas Celphane Maclean 1780 & 1792, the first appoints Maclean to be a Lieutenant in the regiment dated 13th December 1780, signed by George III and the Earl of Hillsborough; the second appoints him to be a Captain in the regiment dated 16th May 1792, signed by George III and Henry Dundas as Home Secretary, both with good clear signatures, wafers and seals and now superbly mounted and displayed in a glazed wooden frame, very good condition ...
£600–£800
19th (1st Yorkshire North Riding) Regiment Officer’s Commission 1795, signed by George III and dated 21st October 1795 appointing (William) Ebhart to be Ensign in the Regiment, complete with both wafer seals and now contained in a fine quality glazed frame, very slight grub and water damage otherwise good condition £80-120
Hammer Price: £50
Buckinghamshire Volunteer Infantry (Second or Middle Regiment) Officer’s Commission 1806, a very scarce example appointing Thomas Stanhope Badcock to be a Major July 24th 1806, signed by George Marquis of Buckingham and complete with his red wax seal. The Commission was printed by Brettell, Marshall St., Golden Square, now contained in a fine quality glazed frame, very good condition £140-240
20th (East Devon) Regiment & 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment Commissions to William Ball, Gentleman, 1810 & 1813, two good quality examples, the first appointing William Ball, Gentleman, to be an Ensign in the 20th Regiment dated 28th February 1810, the second appointing him to be a Lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment, both signed by George III and by Lord Liverpool and complete with seals and wafers, now elegantly displayed in a glazed frame, very good condition £200-300
3rd or East Regiment of Royal Jersey Militia Commissions to Thomas Labey, the first appoints Labey to be 1st Lieutenant in the regiment and is dated 20th April, 1811, this is signed by Lieutenant-General George Don, Governor of Jersey, the second is dated 17th June, 1816 and is signed by Major-General Hugh Mackay Gordon, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the island, both with good clear written detail and seals (the second with some crazing), also two photocopies of engravings of...
A Pair of Imperial German Army Officer’s Shoulder boards, gold and silver braid with original metal insignia; together with H.M.S. Hood sweetheart brooch and assorted South African Railways buttons (13), generally good condition (16) £40-60
Hammer Price: £420
A Nazi Period Army Officer’s Sword, the 86 cm slightly curved bright blade with single fuller by Alcoso/Ao/S/Solingen (plus a pair of weighing scales), gilt brass hand guard with leaf decoration, similar decoration to the back strap, single langet displaying an eagle over a swastika), composition wire bound grip, complete with its blackened steel scabbard, very good condition £200-300
Capture of Louisbourg 1758, silver, by T. Pingo, toned, extremely fine and very rare £3000-3600
Hammer Price: £5,500
Carib War 1773, silver, cast and chased as usual, fitted with ring for suspension, very fine and scarce £1400-1800
Hammer Price: £1,200
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